GAD Records February Premieres: Lost Polish Pop Anthology, 1964 Polish Jazz Quartet Live, and Final SBB Radio Sessions
By HiFi Editorial18 February 2026
Key Highlights
GAD Records’ February releases spotlight Polish musical heritage, spanning lost pop, archival jazz, electronic experiments, film soundtracks, and rare radio and festival recordings.
The centerpiece is *Kto tu jest niewinny*, an anthology of Małgorzata Panecka, featuring a long-lost pop recording plus twelve additional tracks documenting her artistic evolution.
A “sensational” archival discovery includes the Polish Jazz Quartet’s 1964 live concert from the Bled Festival, sourced from Slovenian radio archives.
February’s slate from GAD Records reads less like a themed campaign and more like a cross-section of how Polish archives actually sound when opened: uneven sources, wildly different recording chains, and material that demands careful editorial decisions. What stands out is the curatorial emphasis on rather than polish. The anthology work leans on chronological sequencing and contrast, letting shifts in microphone technique, room acoustics, and tape saturation tell as much of the story as the music itself. Compared with the often “normalized” approach of contemporary reissues, these releases appear to favor preservation of original dynamics and spectral balance, even when that exposes limitations of broadcast-era equipment or location recordings.
